Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see whats ahead of them.

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.